Image Preloading with JavascriptImage Preloading is a technique, often used in navigation graphics and image rollovers, to load images and put them in the browser's cache before they are needed. In this post, we will focus on the Javascript technique to implement image preloading.
Image Preloading with jQueryPre-loading images is the key point to prevent the flickering while rendering a cool JavaScript driven animation, rollover, Ajax loader or toggle effect. If the script which is replacing an image pauses to wait for another image to load, the effect became useless.
Preloading Images Using CSSPreloading images decreases page load time and enhance user experience. In the previous articles: Image Preloading with Javascript and Image Preloading with jQuery, we focused on techniques to preload images using Javascript.This post focuses on another image preload technique using CSS.